Journal Articles
- Abutalib Aghayev, Sage A. Weil, Michael Kuchnik, Mark Nelson, Greg Ganger and George Amvrosiadis, 2020, "File Systems Unfit as Distributed Storage Back Ends: Lessons from 10 Years of Ceph Evolution", login Usenix Mag., 45, (1)
- Abutalib Aghayev, Sage A. Weil, Michael Kuchnik, Mark Nelson, Gregory R. Ganger and George Amvrosiadis, 2020, "The Case for Custom Storage Backends in Distributed Storage Systems", ACM Trans. Storage, 16, (2), pp. 9:1--9:31
- Abutalib Aghayev, Theodore Y. Ts'o, Garth Gibson and Peter Desnoyers, 2017, "Evolving Ext4 for Shingled Disks", login Usenix Mag., 42, (2)
- Mansour Shafaei, Mohammad Hossein Hajkazemi, Peter Desnoyers and Abutalib Aghayev, 2017, "Modeling Drive-Managed SMR Performance", ACM Trans. Storage, 13, (4), pp. 38:1--38:22
- Abutalib Aghayev, Mansour Shafaei and Peter Desnoyers, 2015, "Skylight - A Window on Shingled Disk Operation", ACM Trans. Storage, 11, (4), pp. 16:1--16:28
Conference Proceedings
- Lexiang Huang, Matthew Magnusson, Abishek Bangalore Muralikrishna, Salman Estyak, Rebecca Isaacs, Abutalib Aghayev, Timothy Zhu and Aleksey Charapko, 2022, "Metastable Failures in the Wild", USENIX Association, Carlsbad, CA, pp. 73--90
- Nathan Bronson, Abutalib Aghayev, Aleksey Charapko and Timothy Zhu, 2021, "Metastable failures in distributed systems", ACM, pp. 221--227
- Venkata Swaroop Matte, Aleksey Charapko and Abutalib Aghayev, 2021, "Scalable but wasteful: current state of replication in the cloud", ACM / USENIX Association, pp. 42--49
- Matias Bj\orling, Abutalib Aghayev, Hans Holmberg, Aravind Ramesh, Damien Le Moal, Gregory R. Ganger and George Amvrosiadis, 2021, "ZNS: Avoiding the Block Interface Tax for Flash-based SSDs", USENIX Association, pp. 689--703
- Abutalib Aghayev, Sage A. Weil, Michael Kuchnik, Mark Nelson, Gregory R. Ganger and George Amvrosiadis, 2019, "File systems unfit as distributed storage backends: lessons from 10 years of Ceph evolution", ACM, pp. 353--369
- Jin Kyu Kim, Abutalib Aghayev, Garth A. Gibson and Eric P. Xing, 2019, "STRADS-AP: Simplifying Distributed Machine Learning Programming without Introducing a New Programming Model", USENIX Association, pp. 207--222
- Aurick Qiao, Abutalib Aghayev, Weiren Yu, Haoyang Chen, Qirong Ho, Garth A. Gibson and Eric P. Xing, 2018, "Litz: Elastic Framework for High-Performance Distributed Machine Learning", USENIX Association, pp. 631--644
- Abutalib Aghayev, Theodore Y. Ts'o, Garth Gibson and Peter Desnoyers, 2017, "Evolving Ext4 for Shingled Disks", USENIX Association, pp. 105--120
- Mansour Shafaei, Mohammad Hossein Hajkazemi, Peter Desnoyers and Abutalib Aghayev, 2016, "Modeling SMR Drive Performance", ACM, pp. 389--390
- Abutalib Aghayev and Peter Desnoyers, 2015, "Skylight-A Window on Shingled Disk Operation", USENIX Association, pp. 135--149
- Abutalib Aghayev and Peter Desnoyers, 2013, "Log-structured cache: trading hit-rate for storage performance (and winning) in mobile devices", ACM, pp. 7:1--7:7
